At least the sample size of two that I live with who responded to the question{aire}. Last week after it was announced that Facebook, long the exclusive territory of those with an edu email address was going to throw open their doors to everyone. There had been an intermediate stop that allowed employees of certain corporations in and the addition of geographic networks to the existing school networks. When I mentioned that to my two teenage sons they exchanged the "Mom has no idea what she is talking about" look followed by the proverbial "how do YOU know?" question. I smiled and told them they could just wait and see.

Yesterday, at 1:47 PM, Carolyn Abrams of Facebook announced on their blog, "Welcome to Facebook, everyone." I immediately signed up. Research of course. I broke the news to the kids at carpool. First the open admissions policy; then my sign-up. They did not take it well. In fact, they are still trying to make the case that having adults on Facebook is bad enough; having their mother on Facebook is mortifying. MySpace fine; Facebook, not fine.

According to my kids, MySpace is for weidos, businesses and other adults. Facebook is for normal kids to hang out with their friends in a place where their parents or any other adults are not permitted. Perspective is a wonderful thing. So we will see how this plays out.

As Robert Frost said, "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."

Marianne Richmond blogs at Resonance Partnership.

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